1931 in science

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The year 1931 in science and technology had many significant events, including those listed below.

Contents 1 Mathematics 2 Awards 3 Births 4 Deaths

[edit] Mathematics

• January - Kurt Gödel's On Formally Undecidable Propositions... is published in Monatshefte für Mathematik.

[edit] Awards

• Nobel Prizes
  • Chemistry - Carl Bosch, Friedrich Bergius
  • Medicine - Otto Heinrich Warburg

[edit] Births

• October 12 - Ole-Johan Dahl (d. 2002), computer scientist, invented concepts in object-oriented programming.

[edit] Deaths

• February 11 - Charles Algernon Parsons (b. 1854), British inventor of the steam turbine.
• October 18 - Thomas Edison (b. 1847), inventor.